Glenn Beck: I Once Shot An RFID Into Christiane Amanpour’s Head

It’s no secret that Glenn Beck‘s radio show often takes things a step (or four) further than his television hour (he has to make up for the lack of chalkboard somehow, one supposes) but today’s exchange about Christiane Amanpour — Beck’s former colleague-ish (a big ish) when he was at HLN — was just plain bizarre.

In the course of discussing whether Christiane Amanpour was based in Jordan Beck said that he knew for certain she was because once in the CNN cafeteria he had shot a RFID chip into the back of her neck while pretending to swat at horse flies. Say what? (Yes, yes, he was obviously WEIRDLY joking.) Also discussed: how to pronounce her name correctly, and how the fact Beck recently beat Amanpour in an important newsmakers list is proof the world is going straight to hell. Or something. Audio below.

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